Van Kerkwijk said a very distant Jupiter-like planet like the one discovered is a relatively rare find, and would probably only be found in one in 100 stars.

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...

Faraway from Earth in the Sunrise Arc galaxy lies a star so distant that it took 12.9 billion years for its light to reach our planet. Named Earendel, after a character from J.R.R Tolkien’s ...

Media Releases and Opportunities » Go to news main Media release: Astronomers detect fluorine for the first time in the most distant star‑forming galaxy, yielding clues about how the element is formed ...

NASA discovers potential alien world in distant star’s habitable zone The discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a red dwarf star has fuelled hopes it could support life. Maddison Brennan-Mills ...